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Seventy-two per cent of River House residents said they would like Harvard to distribute free toilet paper to all students, even if term bills would have to be upped two or four dollars...
...become so foul by the 17th century that James I threatened to move his court to Windsor. Then came two events that turned the river into what Victorians called a "monster soup": the Industrial Revolution and the closing of London's cesspools (following the introduction of the flush toilet). By 1859, wastes had made the Thames so ripe that disinfectant-soaked sheets were hung in the windows of Parliament to protect the members from disease and the stench...
...organizers say they realize the need to organize each college or university around issues specific to that institution. For instance, one NUS researcher said, if the toilet paper issue currently inflaming Harvard students came up at a Canadian college, NUS field owrkers would organize protests but would also try to link up the issues with a greater social question like the reasonableness of demands for basic goods without being ripped off by store owners who inflate prices. In this way the NUS uses little issues to illuminate what it sees as inherent problems in an economy dominated by large private...
...answer, however, in the so-called "toilet paper" tangle is clear. Most, if not all students, will agree that the University should supply this necessary item that it now provides only to freshmen and Radcliffe Quad residents. What effect this question of weighty import will have on University policy remains to be seen...
...contouring creams, blushes, enamels, colors and scents that would have staggered Ophelia or even her own mother, who got by with only basic lipstick and powder. A big cosmetics company today produces around 2,500 shades of nail polish, many with matching lipsticks, of course. Plus different perfumes, colognes, toilet waters and other fragrances to be worn at the supermarket, on the tennis court, when running?yes, when running?when dining, when saying goodnight to her Sweet Prince. Plus unnumbered shampoos, moisturizers, eye shadows, lip glosses, mascaras and, not least, cleansers to take the stuff off, all adding...